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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blankmind who wrote (24466)	6/20/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: RTev	Respond to of 74651

hopefully, that money comes to quality - with internet potential like Travelvelocity - and this could be goog for MSFT Ahh, but be careful with that Microsoft competitor. Several months ago, Microsoft urged the DOJ to file an antitrust suit against the airlines for price manipulation with online reservations. I believe DOJ is still investigating. Perhaps Travelocity's parent is now sufficiently isolated from American Airlines that they could avoid being included in such a suit. Maybe. But don't count on it.

To: blankmind who wrote (24466)	6/20/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 74651

I guess most things are relative, MSFT will stay the leader but heck the market may go to crap, so if it does every one else loses too and maybe the cost of living comes down. The Dollar itself is relative. Some times I think the market goes up and down as big money makes swaps between currencies, bonds stocks & derivatives. There is so much going on with the offshore hedge funds I think CreemSpam is afraid to look. Most of the news we get is cold , and while the news pundits say this caused taht to show us they are all knowing it's just artifice. The big dollar moves are planed ahead and news is generated and made to fit the curve. Best we can do is stick with the long term winners and try to catch a shirt tail on the short term knee jerks. ------------- What worries me on a fundamental basis is not one sector leading another , but when the entire market comes to "depend" on one sector. In the long run taht won't work as if that's the only sector making money then eventually who can afford to buy it's products. So many of the old blue chips are just gone to hell too. Like if we take the Tech stocks out of the equation, say the DOW and the S&P had no tech in them , well we would see how bad the rest is doing. The Dow would be down not just for this Year it would be lower than it was last July, same with the S&P..when every thing is in one sector say then what we wind up with is peanut sellers trying to sell peanuts to other peanut sellers as no one else has any money. At some point something has to give because no matter how much market share you have you can run out of a market that can afford to buy your product. BTW the futures are back up. Jim